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Victim reveals recent sexual assault By Jennifer Ryan
The Lumberjack
A lthough police reports state
there have been no reported sex­ual
assaults oh campus for the past
three years, students now are
com ing toward with storiesof such
incidents.
“I was raped a m onth and a h a lf
a g o in m y d o rm r o o m by a
stranger," said an N A U student who
said she was sexually assaulted Sept.
30 and never reported the inci­d
e n t .
“T h e girl just a few doors down
the hall told me she was gang
raped three weeks earlier on south
campus while com ing hom e late
on a F riday o r Saturday night from
a party, but she has quit school,"
she said. ,
Although the number o f assaults
confirm ed by the N A U Police De­‘
I grabbed the comforter off my bed, ran out of the
room and I remember crying and crying and yell­ing
to his friends to get him out of my room.'
- student sexual assault victim
partment is relatively low, sexual
assaults do occur on campus.
“Th ere w ere six date or aquatn-tance
rapes reported last year and
o n e re p o rte d this y ea r,” said
N A U P D Crim e Prevention O ffi­cer
Chuck Milam.
“Everything w e’ve had in the
past three years has been date-rape,"
he said.
Milam said no other sexual as­saults
have been reported, leaving
the department to assume addi­tional
incidents have not taken
place.
H e also questioned the severity
o f ‘date-rapes,’ adding that two
past cases were dropped after the
couples were married.
“1 d on ’ t call ita real seriouscrime.
It’sn ota violent crim e because you
know the other person,” Milam
said.
Despite the university’s image
fo r a lack o f assaults, the studentin
the Sept. 30 incident paints a dif­ferent
picture.
Itis o n e o f helpless ness and frus­tration.
She stopped o f f at herdorm room
with four other people that eve­ning
after a party.
She did not kn ow every person
in the group and when three o f
them left to fin d another party,
she found herself alone in her
room with an Arizona State U ni­versity
student she had never m e t
"I guess I blacked-out o r made
myself black everything out be­cause
I couldn’t handle the situ­ation,
but 1 do n 't rem em ber any­thing,”
she said.
“My friend finally cam e to the
door and started knocking. T h e
room was dark, the stereo was
blasting and he had locked the
door," she said.
“ 1 grabbed the com forter o ff my
bed, ran out o f the room and I
rem em ber crying and crying and
yelling to his friends to get him
out o f my room ."
Sec ASSAULT, Page 4
State budget setbacks
prompt hiring freeze
By Adam Rogers
The Lumberjack
In response to orders from Gov.Rose MofTord, all state agen­cies,
including the state’s three universities, will have to tighten
their belts to offset a $75 m illion shortfall in the state budgeL
N A U is required to immediately institute a hiring freeze and
prepare for up to a 4 percent reversion in the current operating
bu dgeL
This could mean having to make due with $5,177,020 less than
the current budget o f $79,425,500 fo r fiscal year 1989-90.
A spokesperson fo r the governor said no agreement has yet
been reached as to the exact amount o f the cutback or its
consequences.
Lisa Nelson, N A U information specialist, said this could be the
sixth budget reversion in the last nine years, a cutback that will
make it difficult for N AU .
See FREEZE, Page 4
AWS leader blasts hall residents for verbal sexual harassment
By Christopher W oodw ard
The Lumberjack
Students rating the opposite sex and yelling obscenties from resi­dence
hall windows say they are justhaving harmless fun and are actually
com plim enting women.
But there is nothing harmless about verbal sexual harassment, the
head o f a campus organization said.
“It hurts when it comes from peers. I f any studentis harassed, it affects
their psychological well-being. N egative comm en ts can be devastating, *
said Dana Walker, Associated W om en Students co-presidenL
Female pedestrians offended by verbal ratings usually have no way to
defend themselves, W alker said, and the problem is n ot limited to one
residence hall.
“Babbitt Hall has been targeted, but other resident halls are just as
guilty, theyjust haven’t been caught," she said.
T h e Babbitt Hall Executive Council takes offense at the fact that the
hall has been targeted, said Joel Cardella, Babin’s representative to the
Association o f University Residence Halls.
“Sexual harassment is a serious issue. It should be taken as the issue,
and the blame should not-be placed on any specific hall," he said.
Babbitt Hall residents said they are being labeled as the biggest
offenders because o f their location by one o f the main pedestrian traffic
routes on campus.
“I f girls don’t like it ^comments yelled from the hall) there are other
ways to get to the liberal arts building,” resident T om D iam ond said.
“For all the p eoplew h o want to elim inateBabbittHall, just rem em ber
H id er wanted to elim inate the Jews because he thought they w ere the
problem .”
Cardella said people take offense to ratings and comments because
they d o not take time to understand the intenL
“1 d o n ’t willingly harass people. I want to be nice. I tell p eop le things
to make them feel g o o d ," he said.
“Interpretation can cause a fiasco."
Different people often view different things as offensive, said Cheryl
Horgeshimer, A U R H student affairs comm ittee chairperson.
“ (O n e person) m ight think that someone yelling “hey baby” out the
window is offensive, while someone else may not," Horgeshim er said.
Allen Hall resident Kathleen Jackson agreed.
“You know that people are just kidding. It ’s done in g o o d fun,"she
said.
Many o f the remarks are only comments between friends, said Babbitt
resident Brian Courtney.
“I ’ve yelled at women ou t the window but they are wom en I know," he
said. "They are my friends and take it as a joke.
“T h e people behind them and around them that d o n ’t know anything
are the ones getting pissed-off,” he said.
“I f it is n ot directed at them, they should not be offen d ed ,” Cardella
said.
Walker, however, said remarks even to friends can be harassmenL
“I f it is someone you know, it is not a joke. It affects wom en because
they are always told they are sexual and are viewed as outsiders to the
unversity,” she said.
Jon Vail said the remarks are only meant as a nice gesture.
“I f w e see a girl that we think is at tractive, w e ll want to tell her that she
is pretty and smile, ’ Vail said.
“H opefu lly she w ill smile and everyone will feel g ood .”
But n ot all students are concerned with making a fem ale smile.
“Yelling out the windows should be taken as complimentary. W om en
should be flattered,” said off-campus resident Glenn Bak.
“Besides, women are worthless anyway," he $aicL
THE
Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona
K A L A V A R
3 3 2 2 S . 3 00 E AST
S A L T LAK E C I T Y , CJT 8 4 1 1 5
J L m . | JL J L
\folume 84, Issue 27 ■ a c o p y righ t 1989 Thursday, November 16,1989
Photo by Tammy VilesfThe Lumberjack
James W. Waters, 32, arrived in Flagstaff Monday to look for work, and has plans
to stay at Sunshine Rescue Mission on San Francisco Street. (Above) Homeless
peopJe take shelter at the Sunshine’ Resue Mission,"the only sheller in town
available for multiple night stays. The shelter anticipates it will serve 50 people for
Thanksgiving dinner. (Right)-
Homeless ‘fam ily’ to share holidays
By Phil Sampaio
The Lumbcijack
James McCarty w on’ t be going hom e for Thanksgiving dinner.
In fact, James McCarty doesn’t have a home.
N either does Bill Perdue. *
And they’re the lucky ones. Unlike many homeless people in Flag­staff,
they w on’ t be eating their Thanksgiving dinner out o f a can.
But luck has not been all good for Perdue, who says all he has left
is a photograph o f a 49-pound turkey he shared with his family last
year.
“Out o f the last 20 years, I ’ve never been away from my family on
Thanksgiving,” Perdue said. “I t ’s goin g to be a Little strange."
Now his Thanksgiving family will be McCarty and other homeless
people at the Sunshine Rescue Mission, Flagstaff’s only shelter.
Perdue has been calling the shelter hom e since his truck
caughtfire lastweek. H e said all o f his belongings were lost in the
fire, except for a handful o f family photographs and a bag o f
clothes.
Perdue said he is afraid to call his family to tell them where he
has been spending the night, because he has always supported
himself.
H e said being homeless is a humbling experience that has
changed his V h o le outlook on life".
Butsocial workers atCatholic Social Services and Travelers Aid
say many homeless people have it worse.
In O ctober alone, the center assisted 2^5 transient and hom e­less
people.
But the social services facility is not equipped to house the
needy and can only provide meals.
A nd even though winter months are ap­proaching,
the center has been busy.
“I t ’s unusual, mainly because we haven't
had any sn ow an d th e re are s till peop 1 e livi n g
in the woods," said the center coordinator.
She asked to remain anonymous, saying
she once found a transient living in her car,
and doesn’t want to be bothered at home.
She said many homeless people living in
the woods near Mars H ill have come to the
center for food.
Some will take canned fo o d and eat it with­out
being cooked.
“W hat is really needed is a place for these
people to get their start," she said.
Just ask Jean Barton, w ho didn ’ t have any­thing
to eat because the Mission was closed
Saturday.
“I ain’t got n o money, and there is no
reason to stay in the streets," he said.“They
stick a leg out for you in Flagstaff, but they
Photo by Billy Miller(The Lumberj ack don’ t stick out both."
Library annex falls $2 million short
By Christopher Woodward
The L u m b e t ja c k
Construction of the Cline Li­brary
annex must be downgraded
because cost projections have
fallen short by about 3? million.
The construction will be affected
because the bids were beyond the
university's price range, Vice Presi­dent
for Business Affairs Norm
Hind said.
Despite budget shortfalls, de­creasing
the size of the 113,000-
square-foot structure will be a last
resort, said Gary Robertson, di­rector
for Facilities and Develop­ment
"We are going to have to do
redesign work to get $2 million
out of the project," Hinti said.
“We may have to consider lower
quality materials in some cases.”
Robertson disagreed that “lower
quality” materials will have to be
used in the revised library annex
construction plan.
Rather, he said “less expensive"
materials will be used in order to
remain within its $13.9 million
construction budget
One such area will be the type of
wood used in the annex’s wood
"We have a lot of cheny wood
planned.
"Instead of using cheny, we will
consider using oak, which is much
cheaper,9 Robertson said.
He said this should not impact
the appearance of the annex, be­cause
"nobody will ever notice the
difference."
"Its not a quality issue. Its an
aesthetic issue," Robertson said.
He also said a different and less
expensive lighting system will be
implemented in the revised plan
without hurting the annex’s ap­pearance.
The revised appearance will be
“less flashy,” but the library still
will remain a "quality product,"
Robertson said.
In addition to light fixture
changes, tile used in the building
wiB be changed from toraio, a
mixture of concrete and chips of
rock, to less expensive ceramic tile,
he said.
The appearance of the library
annex will be affected by decreas­ing
the quali ty of carpe t from pi ush
to a thin grade, Robertson said.
NAU student receives perfect score
on national law admissions exam
By Adam Rogers
The Lumberjack
Mike Transeir was planning to attend Arizona
State University or the University of Arizona to get
his law degree.
Now, the NAU studentis considering Harvard or
Yale after he received the results to the Law School
Admissions Test. .
He could hardly believe his < yes when the notice
informed him that he received a perfect score on
the national law school entrance exam.
"I wasn’t sure that it was the real score," he said.
"So 1 started fumbling through the pages looking
for the real one.
"And then it dawned on me— I had scored a 48
out of 48."
Transeir said it was a shock, “to say the least."
The first thing he did was call his pre-law adviser.
Then he called his mother.
Thomas Palmer, associate professor of business,
said Transeir’s score most likely is the highest an
NAU student has ever scored on the exam.
"It’s a great compliment to NAU to have some­one
score so high,* he said.
"Transeir is an outstanding student with good
study habits and very deserving at having done so
well/
Palmer said the perfect score on the LSAT defi­nitely
will open up a new range of options for
Transeir.
He also should have little trouble competing at
the Ivy League schools. Palmer said.

Victim reveals recent sexual assault By Jennifer Ryan
The Lumberjack
A lthough police reports state
there have been no reported sex­ual
assaults oh campus for the past
three years, students now are
com ing toward with storiesof such
incidents.
“I was raped a m onth and a h a lf
a g o in m y d o rm r o o m by a
stranger," said an N A U student who
said she was sexually assaulted Sept.
30 and never reported the inci­d
e n t .
“T h e girl just a few doors down
the hall told me she was gang
raped three weeks earlier on south
campus while com ing hom e late
on a F riday o r Saturday night from
a party, but she has quit school,"
she said. ,
Although the number o f assaults
confirm ed by the N A U Police De­‘
I grabbed the comforter off my bed, ran out of the
room and I remember crying and crying and yell­ing
to his friends to get him out of my room.'
- student sexual assault victim
partment is relatively low, sexual
assaults do occur on campus.
“Th ere w ere six date or aquatn-tance
rapes reported last year and
o n e re p o rte d this y ea r,” said
N A U P D Crim e Prevention O ffi­cer
Chuck Milam.
“Everything w e’ve had in the
past three years has been date-rape,"
he said.
Milam said no other sexual as­saults
have been reported, leaving
the department to assume addi­tional
incidents have not taken
place.
H e also questioned the severity
o f ‘date-rapes,’ adding that two
past cases were dropped after the
couples were married.
“1 d on ’ t call ita real seriouscrime.
It’sn ota violent crim e because you
know the other person,” Milam
said.
Despite the university’s image
fo r a lack o f assaults, the studentin
the Sept. 30 incident paints a dif­ferent
picture.
Itis o n e o f helpless ness and frus­tration.
She stopped o f f at herdorm room
with four other people that eve­ning
after a party.
She did not kn ow every person
in the group and when three o f
them left to fin d another party,
she found herself alone in her
room with an Arizona State U ni­versity
student she had never m e t
"I guess I blacked-out o r made
myself black everything out be­cause
I couldn’t handle the situ­ation,
but 1 do n 't rem em ber any­thing,”
she said.
“My friend finally cam e to the
door and started knocking. T h e
room was dark, the stereo was
blasting and he had locked the
door," she said.
“ 1 grabbed the com forter o ff my
bed, ran out o f the room and I
rem em ber crying and crying and
yelling to his friends to get him
out o f my room ."
Sec ASSAULT, Page 4
State budget setbacks
prompt hiring freeze
By Adam Rogers
The Lumberjack
In response to orders from Gov.Rose MofTord, all state agen­cies,
including the state’s three universities, will have to tighten
their belts to offset a $75 m illion shortfall in the state budgeL
N A U is required to immediately institute a hiring freeze and
prepare for up to a 4 percent reversion in the current operating
bu dgeL
This could mean having to make due with $5,177,020 less than
the current budget o f $79,425,500 fo r fiscal year 1989-90.
A spokesperson fo r the governor said no agreement has yet
been reached as to the exact amount o f the cutback or its
consequences.
Lisa Nelson, N A U information specialist, said this could be the
sixth budget reversion in the last nine years, a cutback that will
make it difficult for N AU .
See FREEZE, Page 4
AWS leader blasts hall residents for verbal sexual harassment
By Christopher W oodw ard
The Lumberjack
Students rating the opposite sex and yelling obscenties from resi­dence
hall windows say they are justhaving harmless fun and are actually
com plim enting women.
But there is nothing harmless about verbal sexual harassment, the
head o f a campus organization said.
“It hurts when it comes from peers. I f any studentis harassed, it affects
their psychological well-being. N egative comm en ts can be devastating, *
said Dana Walker, Associated W om en Students co-presidenL
Female pedestrians offended by verbal ratings usually have no way to
defend themselves, W alker said, and the problem is n ot limited to one
residence hall.
“Babbitt Hall has been targeted, but other resident halls are just as
guilty, theyjust haven’t been caught," she said.
T h e Babbitt Hall Executive Council takes offense at the fact that the
hall has been targeted, said Joel Cardella, Babin’s representative to the
Association o f University Residence Halls.
“Sexual harassment is a serious issue. It should be taken as the issue,
and the blame should not-be placed on any specific hall," he said.
Babbitt Hall residents said they are being labeled as the biggest
offenders because o f their location by one o f the main pedestrian traffic
routes on campus.
“I f girls don’t like it ^comments yelled from the hall) there are other
ways to get to the liberal arts building,” resident T om D iam ond said.
“For all the p eoplew h o want to elim inateBabbittHall, just rem em ber
H id er wanted to elim inate the Jews because he thought they w ere the
problem .”
Cardella said people take offense to ratings and comments because
they d o not take time to understand the intenL
“1 d o n ’t willingly harass people. I want to be nice. I tell p eop le things
to make them feel g o o d ," he said.
“Interpretation can cause a fiasco."
Different people often view different things as offensive, said Cheryl
Horgeshimer, A U R H student affairs comm ittee chairperson.
“ (O n e person) m ight think that someone yelling “hey baby” out the
window is offensive, while someone else may not," Horgeshim er said.
Allen Hall resident Kathleen Jackson agreed.
“You know that people are just kidding. It ’s done in g o o d fun,"she
said.
Many o f the remarks are only comments between friends, said Babbitt
resident Brian Courtney.
“I ’ve yelled at women ou t the window but they are wom en I know," he
said. "They are my friends and take it as a joke.
“T h e people behind them and around them that d o n ’t know anything
are the ones getting pissed-off,” he said.
“I f it is n ot directed at them, they should not be offen d ed ,” Cardella
said.
Walker, however, said remarks even to friends can be harassmenL
“I f it is someone you know, it is not a joke. It affects wom en because
they are always told they are sexual and are viewed as outsiders to the
unversity,” she said.
Jon Vail said the remarks are only meant as a nice gesture.
“I f w e see a girl that we think is at tractive, w e ll want to tell her that she
is pretty and smile, ’ Vail said.
“H opefu lly she w ill smile and everyone will feel g ood .”
But n ot all students are concerned with making a fem ale smile.
“Yelling out the windows should be taken as complimentary. W om en
should be flattered,” said off-campus resident Glenn Bak.
“Besides, women are worthless anyway," he $aicL
THE
Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona
K A L A V A R
3 3 2 2 S . 3 00 E AST
S A L T LAK E C I T Y , CJT 8 4 1 1 5
J L m . | JL J L
\folume 84, Issue 27 ■ a c o p y righ t 1989 Thursday, November 16,1989
Photo by Tammy VilesfThe Lumberjack
James W. Waters, 32, arrived in Flagstaff Monday to look for work, and has plans
to stay at Sunshine Rescue Mission on San Francisco Street. (Above) Homeless
peopJe take shelter at the Sunshine’ Resue Mission,"the only sheller in town
available for multiple night stays. The shelter anticipates it will serve 50 people for
Thanksgiving dinner. (Right)-
Homeless ‘fam ily’ to share holidays
By Phil Sampaio
The Lumbcijack
James McCarty w on’ t be going hom e for Thanksgiving dinner.
In fact, James McCarty doesn’t have a home.
N either does Bill Perdue. *
And they’re the lucky ones. Unlike many homeless people in Flag­staff,
they w on’ t be eating their Thanksgiving dinner out o f a can.
But luck has not been all good for Perdue, who says all he has left
is a photograph o f a 49-pound turkey he shared with his family last
year.
“Out o f the last 20 years, I ’ve never been away from my family on
Thanksgiving,” Perdue said. “I t ’s goin g to be a Little strange."
Now his Thanksgiving family will be McCarty and other homeless
people at the Sunshine Rescue Mission, Flagstaff’s only shelter.
Perdue has been calling the shelter hom e since his truck
caughtfire lastweek. H e said all o f his belongings were lost in the
fire, except for a handful o f family photographs and a bag o f
clothes.
Perdue said he is afraid to call his family to tell them where he
has been spending the night, because he has always supported
himself.
H e said being homeless is a humbling experience that has
changed his V h o le outlook on life".
Butsocial workers atCatholic Social Services and Travelers Aid
say many homeless people have it worse.
In O ctober alone, the center assisted 2^5 transient and hom e­less
people.
But the social services facility is not equipped to house the
needy and can only provide meals.
A nd even though winter months are ap­proaching,
the center has been busy.
“I t ’s unusual, mainly because we haven't
had any sn ow an d th e re are s till peop 1 e livi n g
in the woods," said the center coordinator.
She asked to remain anonymous, saying
she once found a transient living in her car,
and doesn’t want to be bothered at home.
She said many homeless people living in
the woods near Mars H ill have come to the
center for food.
Some will take canned fo o d and eat it with­out
being cooked.
“W hat is really needed is a place for these
people to get their start," she said.
Just ask Jean Barton, w ho didn ’ t have any­thing
to eat because the Mission was closed
Saturday.
“I ain’t got n o money, and there is no
reason to stay in the streets," he said.“They
stick a leg out for you in Flagstaff, but they
Photo by Billy Miller(The Lumberj ack don’ t stick out both."
Library annex falls $2 million short
By Christopher Woodward
The L u m b e t ja c k
Construction of the Cline Li­brary
annex must be downgraded
because cost projections have
fallen short by about 3? million.
The construction will be affected
because the bids were beyond the
university's price range, Vice Presi­dent
for Business Affairs Norm
Hind said.
Despite budget shortfalls, de­creasing
the size of the 113,000-
square-foot structure will be a last
resort, said Gary Robertson, di­rector
for Facilities and Develop­ment
"We are going to have to do
redesign work to get $2 million
out of the project," Hinti said.
“We may have to consider lower
quality materials in some cases.”
Robertson disagreed that “lower
quality” materials will have to be
used in the revised library annex
construction plan.
Rather, he said “less expensive"
materials will be used in order to
remain within its $13.9 million
construction budget
One such area will be the type of
wood used in the annex’s wood
"We have a lot of cheny wood
planned.
"Instead of using cheny, we will
consider using oak, which is much
cheaper,9 Robertson said.
He said this should not impact
the appearance of the annex, be­cause
"nobody will ever notice the
difference."
"Its not a quality issue. Its an
aesthetic issue," Robertson said.
He also said a different and less
expensive lighting system will be
implemented in the revised plan
without hurting the annex’s ap­pearance.
The revised appearance will be
“less flashy,” but the library still
will remain a "quality product,"
Robertson said.
In addition to light fixture
changes, tile used in the building
wiB be changed from toraio, a
mixture of concrete and chips of
rock, to less expensive ceramic tile,
he said.
The appearance of the library
annex will be affected by decreas­ing
the quali ty of carpe t from pi ush
to a thin grade, Robertson said.
NAU student receives perfect score
on national law admissions exam
By Adam Rogers
The Lumberjack
Mike Transeir was planning to attend Arizona
State University or the University of Arizona to get
his law degree.
Now, the NAU studentis considering Harvard or
Yale after he received the results to the Law School
Admissions Test. .
He could hardly believe his < yes when the notice
informed him that he received a perfect score on
the national law school entrance exam.
"I wasn’t sure that it was the real score," he said.
"So 1 started fumbling through the pages looking
for the real one.
"And then it dawned on me— I had scored a 48
out of 48."
Transeir said it was a shock, “to say the least."
The first thing he did was call his pre-law adviser.
Then he called his mother.
Thomas Palmer, associate professor of business,
said Transeir’s score most likely is the highest an
NAU student has ever scored on the exam.
"It’s a great compliment to NAU to have some­one
score so high,* he said.
"Transeir is an outstanding student with good
study habits and very deserving at having done so
well/
Palmer said the perfect score on the LSAT defi­nitely
will open up a new range of options for
Transeir.
He also should have little trouble competing at
the Ivy League schools. Palmer said.